Articles
Tracing the Roots of a Poisonous Tree: On the Origins and Impact of Criminal Terminology in a Civil Apprehension Scheme, 53 N.M.L.Rev 255 (2023). [SSRN]
Contextualizing (Children’s) Immigration in Law, History, Theory and Politics, 1 MICH. ST. L. REV. 187 (2022). [SSRN]
Cooperative Federalism and SIJS, 61 B.C. L. REV. 8 (2020) (with Nicole Silvestri Hall). [SSRN]
Unaccompanied Minors, Statutory Interpretation, and Due Process, 108 CALIF. L. REV. (2020) (with Nicole Silvestri Hall). [SSRN]
Child Migrants and America’s Evolving Immigration Mission, 32 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 59 (2019). [SSRN]
Immigration, Adoption and Our National Identity, 26 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL’Y 85 (2019) (focus of a symposium at Duke Law School for which the discussants were Dean Kerry Abrams and Professor Katheryn Bradley). [SSRN]
The Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Early Childhood: How to Maximize Family Engagement, FLA. L. REV. FORUM (2019) (Shani King, Hannah Ayasse, Alyssa Mikytuck, Rachel F Barr, Jennifer F. Woolard, and Terry Harrak) (invited). [SSRN]
Life-Changing Decisions: Exploring Proximal and Distal Motivations Behind Why American Parents Adopt Domestically or Internationally, 18 GLOBAL J. HUM. SOC. SCI. 1 (2018) (Yu Zhang, Victor W. Harris, David Diehl, Shani King, Alison Schmeer, and Kyra Speegle).
Lessons from the Baby Elmo Project: Fostering the Relationships Between Incarcerated Teen Parents and Their Young Children, 93 N.C.L. REV. 1381 (2015) (Shani King, Jennifer Woolard, and Rachel Barr) (invited). [SSRN]
The Hague Convention and Domestic Violence: Proposals for Balancing the Policies of Discouraging Child Abduction and Protecting Children from Domestic Violence, 38 FAM. L.Q. 299 (2013). [SSRN]
Alone and Unrepresented: A Call to Congress to Provide Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, 50 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 331 (2013) (selected by the Immigration and Nationality Law Review as one of the best immigration articles published in 2013 and reprinted in the Immigration and Nationality Law Review; recognized by Jotwell as one of the best recent works of recent scholarship relating to family law and reviewed on the Jotwell website). [SSRN]
Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families, 25 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 1 (2012). [SSRN]
The Family Law Canon in a (Post?) Racial Era, 72 OHIO ST. L.J. 575 (2011). [SSRN]
U.S. Immigration Law and the Traditional Nuclear Conception of Family: Toward a
Functional Definition of Family That Protects Children’s Fundamental Human Rights, 41 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 509 (2010). [SSRN]
Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption, 30 MICH. J. INT’L L. 413 (2009). [SSRN]
Race, Identity, and Professional Responsibility: Why Legal Services Organizations Need African American Staff Attorneys, 18 CORNELL J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2008). [SSRN]
